Boris, known alternatively by the epithet The Animal, is the main antagonist of the third film in the franchise, titled Men in Black III. Boris is an intergalactic criminal and the last known member of the Boglodite race. He also has an insect-like pet named the Weasel, who lives in his right hand, serving as Boris' main source of spikes to kill. He was apprehended by Agent K at Cape Canaveral in Florida on July 16, 1969. Upon escaping from LunarMax Prison, Boris time-jumps back to 1969 to prevent Kay from shooting off his arm and establishing the Arc Net Shield so that his species will survive. Agent J similarly travels back to the 1960s to stop Boris from achieving this goal. Boris is portrayed by Jemaine Clement.

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1969

Boris in 1969

On July 15th 1969, Boris killed Roman the Fabulist whilst searching for the Arc Net Shield at Coney Island, according to the MiB Archives. Later, at Cape Canaveral where Agent K placed the Arc Net Shield on the Apollo 11 rocket, Boris attempted to stop K from doing so, only to have his arm blown off and sent to prison. K regretted not killing him for many years following the incident. The establishment of this shield around Earth prevented the Boglodites, parasites that strip a planet of its resources, from entering thereby leading to their extinction. This only fortified Boris' grudge against Agent K. However, his pet, the Weasel, somehow evaded capture and remained hidden for the next 40 years.

2012

After almost 40 years of imprisonment at the LunarMax Prison, Boris escapes from the facility with the aid of Lilly Poison, who has brought the Weasel over to free Boris. With the deed done, Boris resolves to kill K. After a close encounter with both K and J at the roof of a Chinese restaurant, Boris resolves to kill K instead by traveling back in time - time-jumping - to the year 1969 to stop K from forcing his race into extinction and destroying/shooting off his arm.

Altered 2012

Boris did succeed in killing Kay in the past and his race did not become extinct and thus invaded earth as the result,however Agent J knew he need to travel back in time also to alter the timeline to the original and save K's life in the past .Agent J succeed in changing history as it was before meaning this altered timeline nevered occurred.

Altered 1969

In the altered timeline, the elder Boris and the Weasel travel back to this year with the aim of working together with their past selves to kill K and destroy the Arc Net to ensure their species' survival. The younger Boris manages to track down Griffin, the rightful possessor of the Arc Net Shield, but in a brief encounter with the young K and J, they manage to rescue Griffin and Boris escapes. However, both the young K and J need to install the Arc Net in the Apollo 11 at Cape Canaveral (with the help of an Army Colonel named Colonel James Darrell Edwards II, who later happens to be J's father) before it blasts off into space.

The two Borises, along with their Weasels, then follow the agents to Cape Canaveral, where the elder Boris fights J while the younger Boris tries to stop the younger K from installing the Arc Net into the rocket. Just as the elder Boris attempts to kill the young K, he is distracted by J, who is then pelted with spikes before pushing himself and the elder Boris off the launch tower. Eventually, J time-travels himself back to where he faces off the elder Boris, but only this time he dodges the spikes, much to the elder Boris' shock. This allows J to punch the elder Boris off the tower, later to be killed by the rocket launching off. Around the same time, the younger Boris' left arm is still destroyed by K when he uses one of the fueling hoses containing liquid nitrogen to freeze his arm and shatters it by shooting it.

Following the successful installment of the Arc Net Shield, the agents escape from the tower as Apollo 11 begins to lift off, and the elder Boris is incinerated by the engine exhaust from the Saturn 5 lift vehicle. As the younger K reunites with Colonel Edwards, the younger Boris arrives, having escaped the tower, and launches a spike on K, only for the Colonel to receive it himself, an act witnessed by a shocked J. Following the Colonel's death, the young K holds the younger Boris at gunpoint, and Boris, revealing his true form, attempts to goad K into arresting him. But, knowing that this would only serve to set the cycle in motion, the young K refuses to do so, and instead shoots the younger Boris, executing him once and for all. With Boris finally dead, the parasitic Boglodites starve themselves into extinction over the next 40 years, as they can't survive without feeding off resources from a planet.

Trivia

Before the film went into production, Boris was named Yaz. Yaz was also the name of the villain in early script drafts for the first Men in Black film.

In the altered timeline, there are two Boris' in 1969, the younger Boris that gets apprehended by K, and the elder Boris who time traveled back from 2012 and whose arm is already destroyed.